There, Where I Saw Her Lovely Beauty Painted

John Wilbye

There, where I saw her lovely beauty painted,
Where, Venus-like, my sacred goddess shineth,
There, with *precellent object mine eyes fainted,
That fair, but fatal star, my dole divineth.
As soon as morning in her light appeareth,
Her sweet salute, my mind o-erclouded, cleareth;
When night again the day-s delight bereaveth,
My heart-s true sacrifice she quick receiveth:
But night and day she craftily forsakes me,
To tedious day, to loathsome night betakes me.

(C) John Wilbye
03/12/2017

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